Tuesday, October 27, 2015

This moderate Syrian opposition is made up of Islamic jihadists. Former
Defense Intelligence Agency director Michael Flynn recently confirmed
that the Obama Administration knowingly decided to support al-Qaeda and
the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, and directly enabled the rise of the
Islamic State. The rebels are not by any stretch of the imagination
“moderates”: they’re […]Read in browser »

Anywhere Western mores and Islamic mores conflict, it is American mores that must give way. Islamic supremacism in action.

Two Muslims had refused to deliver alcohol for their employer, saying it
was against their religious values as practicing Muslims. They were
rightly fired.

Obama’s EEOC sued Star Transport for rightfully terminating two Muslims
who refused to do their job They refuse to transport their cargo, which
was alcohol. If these Muslim truck drivers don’t want to deliver
alcohol, then they shouldn’t have taken a job in which part of their
duties would be to deliver alcohol....

20,000 Israelis sue Facebook over incitement to violence by Palestinians

The plaintiffs argue
that Facebook is far from a neutral or passive social media platform and
cannot claim it is a mere bulletin board for other parties' postings.

An image posted on Facebook under the "Knife
Intifada" hashtag called on West Bank residents to continue killing
Jews: "O son of the [West] Bank, rise up! Do not leave [the Jews]
alone.".
(photo credit:MEMRI)

Some 20,000 Israelis have sued Internet giant
Facebook in New York alleging the social media platform is disregarding
incitement and calls to murder Jews being posted by Palestinians,
Shurat Hadin said on Monday.

The civil complaint filed late on
Sunday but announced only on Monday, seeks an injunction to require
Facebook to block all racist incitement and calls for violence against
Jews in Israel, but no damages.

A 76-page list of plaintiffs
contend that “Facebook’s refusal to remove the flood of extremist
videos, statements and cartoons being posted by Palestinians is
encouraging imminent violence and fanning the flames of the terrorist
attacks that have overwhelmed Israel in the past month.”

The
lead plaintiff, Israeli-American Richard Lankin, 76, was shot in the
head and stabbed multiple times as a passenger on a Jerusalem bus on
October 13 when Palestinian terrorists from East Jerusalem, armed with
guns and knives, carried out an attack.

Two Israelis were killed in the attack and Lankin remains in critical condition in a Jerusalem hospital.

Gun Deaths Have Dropped 30 Percent Since 1993

Conservatives have been saying it for months and now new
data back up the claims. America isn’t a shooting gallery. Our schools
are not war zones. And there is no gun violence epidemic. According to Pew Research, homicides rates have stabilized, with the overall gun death rate dropping 30 percent since 1993:

Several mass shootings this year have brought renewed
attention to the issue of gun violence in America, and President Obama
has again called for Congress to change the nation’s gun laws.

But the increased spotlight on guns does not reflect the overall gun
violence trend in the country. Although most Americans think the number
of gun crimes has risen, the U.S. gun homicide rate has actually
stabilized somewhat in recent years, according to a Pew Research Center
analysis of death certificate data collected by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[…]

The nation’s overall gun death rate has declined 30% since 1993. This
total includes homicides and suicides, in addition to a smaller number
of fatal police shootings, accidental shooting deaths and those of
undetermined intent. For example, in 2013 there were 467 fatal police
shootings, up from 333 in 2009.

Yet, Pew did note that suicides are growing, which is something that
needs to be tackled, hopefully in congruence with reforming our mental
health system. In 2013, Pew found there was a 49 percent drop in gun homicides between 1993-2010. The Bureau of Justice Statistics marked a 39 percent drop in gun-related homicides between 1993-2011, roughly the same period. Recently, the FBI noted a 3.9 percent drop
in gun homicides between 2013 and 2014. The numbers might be different,
but the conclusion is the same: gun homicides are down.

So, there is no need to curb Second Amendment rights with onerous and
ineffective new gun laws, like expanding background checks, which have
proven to be unable to stop mass shootings. Oregon has a universal
background check law. Chris Harper-Mercer was still able to commit an
horrific shooting at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg since he
didn’t break any laws, nor was he involuntary committed for mental
health issues. Most mass shooters buy their firearms legally, and share a
character profile that’s found in millions of young men who don’t
commit murder. So far, the gun control crowd has offered no serious
policy solutions in trying to curb gun violence; it’s mostly grounded in
talking points more appropriate for a fundraising mailer than a policy
debate.

[Clinton] cautioned that “it’s not been as widespread as it has been made out to be”
on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” on Friday.

The former first lady blamed
Republicans for using the issue as part of an “ideological agenda” and
said they want the VA to fail. “Now nobody would believe that from the
coverage you see, and the constant berating of the VA that comes from
the Republicans, in – in part in pursuit of this ideological agenda that
they have,” Clinton said. “They try to create a downward spiral, don’t fund it to the extent that it needs to be funded, because they want it to fail, so then we can argue for privatization.”

Before we proceed any further, kindly allow me to remind you that Hillary Clinton's party is currently filibustering
a bill that funds the VA, using America's veterans as a bargaining chip
to try to force Republicans to agree to unrelated spending increases.
President Obama is engaged in similar "hostage taking," having just vetoed
bipartisan defense legislation that, among other things, would pay the
troops. Setting that aside, let's address Mrs. Clinton's arguments one
by one:

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